O4SDI 2016 - 2nd IEEE Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI-2)

2nd IEEE Workshop on
Orchestration for Software-Defined Infrastructures (O4SDI-2)
To be held in conjunction with the
2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software
Defined Networks (IEEE NFV-SDN 2016)
November 7, 2016 - Palo Alto, California, USA
http://o4sdi.unibo.it/o4sdi2
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2016
Acceptance notification: September 16, 2016
Camera-ready papers: October 7, 2016
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Paper submissions are handled on-line through the EDAS system:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22175&track=81344
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SCOPE
The current industry trend of convergence between computing and
networking eco-systems clearly shows that software will play an
unprecedented dominant role also in future communication environments.
Computing, storage, and connectivity services, as well as any other
present and future application instances, will be deployed in the form
of virtualized assets within a software-defined infrastructure running
on top of general-purpose processing and communication hardware, all
managed and made available under the cloud “As A Service” paradigm.
This technological convergence and infrastructure sharing between the
computing and communication systems portend a scenario with a “fog” of
micro-clouds composed of generalized virtual functions providing both
applications and network services that supplement those deployed in
traditional cloud datacenters.
The Second IEEE Workshop on Orchestration for Software-Defined
Infrastructures (O4SDI) addresses the challenges that will facilitate
orchestration and programmability of generalized virtual functions in
Software Defined Infrastructures (SDI), enabling cloud and network
providers to deploy integrated services across different resource
domains. Orchestration mechanisms will facilitate the live deployment
and lifecycle management of these virtual elements, at the application
level, the server level, and the network level within a single domain
and across multiple domains. Without such orchestration it will not
be possible to enable dynamic establishment of generalized virtual
function chains, according to service requirements.
These challenges of orchestration are many-fold, with many open
questions that need to be addressed in the areas of:
- network "softwarization," which requires unified management of
computing, storage, and network resources for the effective
deployment, lifecycle management, and run-time configuration of
generalized virtual functions;
- abstraction models and open standard interfaces, needed for
assuring vendor interoperability;
- adaptation and optimization mechanisms, which must be enforced at
global and/or local level for coping with user demand, application
requirements, resource unavailability, etc.
O4SDI aims at providing an international forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, network operators, and service
providers to discuss and address the challenges deriving from such
emerging scenario where systems, processes, and workflows used in both
computing and communications domains are converging.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Due to the highly interdisciplinary scope of the workshop,
contributions are expected from both computing and network-oriented
research communities, with the aim of facilitating discussion, cross-
fertilization and exchange of ideas and practices, and successfully
promote innovative solutions toward a real programmatic use of software-
defined infrastructures as a whole. Contributions that discuss lessons
learnt and best practices, describe practical deployment and
implementation experiences, and demonstrate innovative use-cases are
especially encouraged for presentation and publication.
We are particularly interested in papers that cover, but are not
limited to, the following topics:
- single domain and cross domain orchestration issues
- integrated network and computing resource control and management
- control and abstraction of heterogeneous networks
- orchestration in SDN/NFV
- run-time orchestration
- orchestration for next-generation IP and optical networks
- orchestration in 5G networks
- QoS/QoE in software-defined infrastructures
- orchestration for high-availability and resilience in
software-defined infrastructures
- intent-based orchestration
- dynamic service composition and delivery
- network programmability for service chaining
- software engineering and operating systems techniques applied
to orchestration
- description, specification, and abstraction languages
for orchestration
- optimal orchestration algorithms
- context-aware orchestration
- functional architectures of orchestrating elements
- testbed experiments on orchestrations
- performance evaluation of orchestration elements
- standardization issues in orchestration
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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Stuart Clayman, University College London, UK - s.clayman-AT-ucl.ac.uk
Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy - walter.cerroni-AT-unibo.it
Barbara Martini, CNIT, Pisa, Italy - barbara.martini-AT-cnit.it
Federica Paganelli, CNIT, Firenze, Italy - federica.paganelli-AT-cnit.it
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITEE
To be announced soon
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AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality, original technical
papers for presentation at the workshop and publication in the O4SDI
Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Papers must be written in English,
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted
as the standard IEEE double-column conference template. All final
submissions should have a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages
(10-point font), including figures, without incurring additional page
charges.
To be published in the Workshop Proceedings and to be eligible for
publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is
required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The IEEE
reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the
conference (including its removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not
presented at the conference. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they
do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any
other conference at the same time (double submission).
For additional author guidelines, please refer to:
http://nfvsdn2016.ieee-nfvsdn.org/authors/call-for...